Beyond the Frame
An outline always touches things outside
Itself and so is more inclusive, though
It does not mean to be. Its lines collide
Not only with what edges touch, just so,
Inside a painting’s bounds, for instance, but
The vast surroundings everywhere about
It (fitting since the dreaming canvas cut
To fill the edges always meant to shout
Out bigger concepts). Feelings and large thought
Included in the oils were far too strong
To be contained inside that trap. They wrought
Their way inside the artist for too long
To be restricted by a rigid frame.
Philosophy and God will not be tame.
